The book is concerned with production planning problems arising in the contextof maketoorder assembly. After introducing the general decision context asurvey of... » 

The book is concerned with production planning problems arising in the contextof maketoorder assembly. After introducing the general decision context asurvey of the relevant literature in the fields of assembly management maketoorder manufacturing and project scheduling is given. The main part of thebook provides a hierarchical planning approach with three levels orderselection manufacturing planning and operations scheduling. The decisionproblem of each level is carefully elaborated and stated in terms of amathematical programme. Suited solution procedures such as list schedulingtabu search and linear programming are proposed and experimentally tested. «